Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-30
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An CID Californian, 9 genuine forty
nineF, Who e speadinR fec days IL the
city, FemaKked, when he saw the nccount
Of tie BARRING Of the big hotel IS Del
Mon1e, N his state, last Monday, thai
be had no 6o1be Il vas the wJFk Of an
arceists, because Il Was she property Of
q railroad corporation. TIE freQuency
Of ssmllsr crimes By anarchists, espe
sally IN California, v51ld soon neeessi-
tate repetition Of che vIeilance CON-
mittee work Of se56
Inc woEk Of thai Committee be
addea, saved she State Tue lawleGs
elenent must Be again taught q severe
lesson, end believe is Gus. baRin In
California, for it Is uorss there today.
Do / FemsmDer the WORK Of the FlRi
lance COMMITTEES Of 1862 Well /
sboald saJ 30. was right on the spot.
thousands Of dollars had been disfrib-
uted among ths rough element TO intin-
ence the eisction for Mayor Murder,
rios and arson were eSmmon- A few
days before the eleotioa ! vas sitting
in one Of the leading hotels ct San
Francisco. DR.. Randall, q popular ply
stefan, entered and vent 20 the counter
As be stood there an Enalish money
lender, named HetheriBRton, 9 desper-
ate fellow, entered and. without word.
stepped directly up 70 the doctor and
droTe & long knife slmoss 70 the hiit
into his left bre4st. Il vas instant
death and one Of tbs most cold-bIooded
murders ever committed IN the city.
HesbeKineton vas arrested promptly.
aud that Eight be was hanged By the
V sRiIance C0mmiitae on the open street
IL seemed that the doctor owed Hether-
ington some money and had refused or
delayed payment. HesheriBgton was
worth ever $4,000, and had murders d
another doctor sometime before. He
got free BY paying 81, COO.
"Bus the example Was not sufficient
10 put q stop to lawlessness. and the
Committee decided that eomethine more
decisive must be done. Jack Hayes vas
the sheriff then. h. vas sent ont of the
city en- q false scent. The COMMITTEES
then vent 70 the Jail and took out seven
murdsrers, hustled them to the gsllows
erected on the street and then stFu z
every one of them 10. / remember
when the Oonmittee vas being quietly
formed two desperate characters tried
10 kill me in curt. Two Of my frienda,
big, strong, muscular fellows, stepped
up and cowed the despeEadoes by show
ina 6gkt. Then ] suggested to the
Judge thst my eesailants should be
vas done, and they gave bonds, bat fol-
I0wtd one to my Office. They said that
thsy wanted to talk With me. When
49,
heard had iLhaence with the Vigilance
Committee that Was being organized
and fearing they would be hanged, they
wanted me to save them. They promis-
ed to behave themselves and the next
day suec, eded In saving their neeks
remember that when the Commute
vent TO got the seven murdeFeFs they
found q woman in jail Who had kept a
grocery store In the cellar If which 3
aumber Of skeletons bad been found,
believed 10 be tho-e Of murdered per.
sons. The Committee vas undecided
whether to hang her With the others.
Finally. as there was some doubt about
her having actually committed murder,
though there vas no doubt she had been
an accessory to more thsn one, IL vas
decided 30 send her sdrift Oh the ocean
IN a-small boat. After the men had
been disposed OF che was taken to the
shore and put in q boat. Some provis
ions we're put in with her, and she had
on her peFsen $4,000 ia money. Then
the boat vas scot adrift. | don't know
what became Of her. She was never
heard Of afterwAFd | believe, though !
Imagine IL possible her friends followed
her along the coast and rescued her"
Speaking Of lively aeitators, what has
become OF DeDnis kearney, your famous
Sand Lots lesdsrIn
I'VE haven't heard of him lately, and
he has quieted down entirely. believe
be Was led to cease bis efforts for q lib
eral money consideration. remember,
though, a narrow escape he had from
being banged when General Grant visit
ed the city. Before the General arrived,
and when his coming vas the talk of
the city, kearney openly boosted that be
would teach the General q ing or two,
and named certain day and hour
when be and his followers would hang
the General 10 effiey. Some of the
more Law abiding citiz MS heard Of this,
and 500 Of them got together end re-
solved that il keaFnsy should hang
Grant in effiRy they would hang Kear-
neY. They procured several hundred
feet Of rope, with which II was intended
20 drag Kearney about town little. and
then pull him up TO the Rallows. A
friend Of KeaTney's got wind of the plan
and told him Of 1t. Scared half to
death. be at once ordered all signs Of
his effigy hanging obhterated, and not
another word was heard Of il. What
do you suppose the cheeky fellow did
after thatl When Grant arrived Kear-
ney rugged himself up in his best. and
went TO the hetel where the General was
and sent MP his card. General Grant
refused to see him"